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Reasoning and learning by analogy
1Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. gentner@nwu.edu
The American Psychologist
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Analogy is a powerful cognitive mechanism that people use to make inferences and learn new abstractions. The history of work on analogy in modern cognitive science is sketched, focusing on contributions from cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of science. This review sets the stage for the 3 articles that follow in this Science Watch section.